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Gunna

Gunna is the stage name of American hip-hop artist Sergio Giavanni Kitchens, who was born in College Park, Georgia, on June 14th, 1993. He released a mixtape titled Hard Body in 2013 under the name "Young Gunna." It caught the attention of performer Young Thug, and Gunna’s formal mixtape debut, Drip Season, followed in 2016. Sequels Drip Season 2 (2017) and Drip Season 3 (2018) arrived on Drip Season's heels, and shortly thereafter, Gunna had a hit on his hands with the Lil Baby collaboration “Drip Too Hard” (2018), which peaked at Number 4 in the US and achieved 7x Platinum certification. In late 2018, the joint mixtape Drip Harder with Lil Baby went to Number 4 on the Billboard 200 and hit Number 12 on the UK Albums Chart. His 2019 single “One Call” was another minor hit, peaking at Number 20 on the Rap Chart and Number 23 on the R&B/Hip-Hop Chart, and his debut album proper, Drip Or Drown 2, was released in February 2019, reaching Number 3 on the Billboard 200. It was swiftly followed in May 2020 by Wunna, which featured guest appearances from Travis Scott, Roddy Ricch, and Young Thug and claimed the top spot in the US. A deluxe edition of the album, complete with new contributions from Future, Lil Uzi Vert, and Nav, arrived two months on and spawned a number of Hot 100-charting non-singles, although Gunna’s biggest hit of the year proved to be the Internet Money collaboration “Lemonade,” which reached Number 6 in his home country and promptly went platinum in both the US and Canada. Following the release of the collaborative album Slime Language 2 (2021) with Young Thug, Gunna dropped the album DS4Ever, the fourth and final installment of the Drip Season series. The album went to Number 1 on the Billboard 200, while its follow-up, 2023's A Gift & A Curse, peaked at Number 3.